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| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A collection of early photographs, various formats, with images including a Victorian Railways porter in full uniform, a Melbourne street scene by Nettleton, a Melbourne Cup jockey, a group of sportsmen (by W.D. Thrower, Chapel St., Windsor), 3 gentlemen… | *** |  |
| *** | P. E. De Strzelecki (1797 - 1873), Physical Description of New South Wales and van Diemen's land. Accompanied by a Geological map, sections, and diagrams, and figures of the organic remains. [London : Longman, brown, green and Longmans, 1845, 1st ed.]… | *** |  |
| *** | The Sketchbook of Lord Inverurie, Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer (1877 - 1897), son of Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia from 1889 - 1895. Titled 'Ian's Early Sketches', the bound volume bears a tipped-in certificate on the inside front cover,… | *** |  |
| *** | Aviation photographs, wonderful archive of 'Roplane photographs (998),-80s, Many Ex Aviation Researcher Chris O'Neill, a Comprehensive History of Australian & New Zealand Aviation, with civil, military and naval Aircraft, Airshows, Crashes, 'Southern… | *** |  |
| *** | 1921 J. J. Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) æAustralian FootballersÆ (Rays), complete set [40]. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman, display comprising complete set of 1997 'Sir Donald Bradman AC Greatest Hits' cards (16) - with each card signed by Bradman, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 42 x 52 cm | *** |  |
| *** | 1949 Anglo-French Sweetworks (South Africa) 'South African test Cricketers', complete set, all signed, noted Dudley Nourse, Eric Rowan & Hugh Tayfield. G/VG. An extremely rare signed set. (12) | *** |  |
| *** | Snowdon Family Postcard Album, c1900-20, includes Royalty with most of the crowned heads of Europe (Prince Albert, Edward VII, royal families of Sweden, Russia, Italy, etc); political, ecclesiastical & theatrical personalities; ships; comic cards… | *** |  |
| *** | Antique album with cards including an impressive collection of the 'Great White Fleet' U.S. Navy 1908 (52); advertising, Australiana, Insurance Companies; World War I themes, 'Serravllo's Tonic' Trieste Italy & much more a lovely collection in VG to… | *** |  |
| *** | Anonymous: 1909 series featuring Australian and English cricketers utilising the images used by W. D. & H. O. Wills but with different marginal devices and colours and with blank backs. A total of 27 cards including M. A. Noble and A. O. Jones in two… | *** |  |
| *** | 1995 Futera 'The Heritage Collection - A Collection of Great Australian Cricketers', complete set [60], with 58 player cards signed, (Keith Miller card unsigned). VG condition in special album. | *** |  |
| *** | An Unconditional Free Pardon For Timothy Lee: A Free Pardon For Timothy Lee: 18 February 1844 Free Pardon on vellum, awarded to one Timothy Lees and signed by the Governor of New South Wales, George Gipps; with official Coat of Arms and the original seal… | *** |  |
| *** | Movie Poster A Woman of Paris 1923 colour linocut with letterpress, 102 x 38 cm. Linen-backed. 'Featuring Edna Purviance. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin.' Released by United Artists (Australasia) Ltd. Jno. Evans & Son Printing Co., 468-488 Kent… | *** |  |
| *** | Alphonse Chargois (1860-1936), daisy Belle, Jack Kinmont Moir and Rose-Marie, Delta Downs, 1890s, albumen paper photograph laid down on the photographer's cabinet card, inscribed verso: 'Daisy bell, Jack Kinmont Moir and Rose-Marie, Delta', inscribed on… | *** |  |
| *** | Important collection of glass plate lantern slides with accompanying hand written book of various slide programs. Collection features rare photographs of Tasmanian Aborigines at Bruny Island including portraits of Truganini and William Lanne, Tasmanian… | *** |  |
| *** | Gasc's locket French dictionary the 'Smallest French & English Dictionary' contained in a small metal locket with window front, [David Bryce & Sons], vii,648(1) printed pages. Printed on fine India paper. Last printed page covers English coins and… | *** |  |
| *** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition: Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley: Image A75 - Title: Maker of History, with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday May 27, 1930' verso, together with official… | *** |  |
| *** | Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 - 1718), Het Niew Hollandt. Nuova Guinea, published Venice, [1697], copper plate engraved globe gore of the Dutch discoveries in the spice Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia from the northwest cape to the Gulf of Carpentaria… | *** |  |
| *** | Antonio Zatta (1757 - 1797), 'Nuove Scoperte Fatte nel 1765, 67, e 69 nel Mare del Sud', Venice, 1776, hand coloured copper plate engraving, 30 x 41 cm; framed 49.5 x 59 cm overall. A very early representation of the discoveries made by cook, Wallis,… | *** |  |
| *** | A red leather-bound album of Australian and Pacific albumen prints containing 65 images of Melbourne, rural Victoria, Tasmania and Fiji, mostly 13 x 18 cm each approximately, with others 24 x 30 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Ornate red-leather presentation album with embossed title 'Photographs. Illustrating the Earliest Times of New South Wales.' the large album was presented to lady Darley, wife of the Acting Governor, Sir Frederick Darley of NSW in 1895. Contains onl | *** |  |
| *** | G.W. Goyder, plan of the Southern portion of the Province of South Australia, as divided into Counties and Hundreds, showing the most important Settlements, post Towns, Telegraph stations, main Roads, Railways &c. Compiled from official documents in the… | *** |  |
| *** | An illuminated manuscript presentation to Lord Lamington, 1896:A most attractive leather-bound illuminated manuscript presented to Lord Lamington, 'Governor and Commander in chief of the Colony of Queensland' to 'Extend a cordial welcome to your Exc | *** |  |
| *** | The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B8 - title: Telling it to the Penguins,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday Apr. 28, 1931' verso, together with the… | *** |  |
| *** | Hong Kong: a fine group of hand coloured albumen paper prints, circa 1880s, most annotated verso, approx. 20 x 27 cm, scenes include harbour views, street scenes, the cricket ground & city hall, Queens Road, etc, (12 items; individually mounted for… | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players' (D series), complete set (60) (Differs from the 1908 D series - backs are different and many different players.) (60) | *** |  |
| *** | 1934 Godfrey Phillips 'Victorian League and Association Footballers', complete set (50) | *** |  |
| *** | 1963 'Scanlens 3D. Football card gum' wrapper. Extremely rare. | *** |  |
| *** | 1850s-90s collection of engravings, book plates, illustrations, etc. depicting Jewish life and personalities. Noted 'Presentation of an Address to Cardinal Manning by the Jewish Community of England' [1890], 'Consecration of the Melbourne Synagogue'… | *** | N/A |
| *** | 1924 Tandy's Football Toffee 'SA Footballers - Percy Lewis, North Adelaide'. G/VG condition. Extremely rare | *** |  |
| *** | 1910 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', Series E, complete set (60). G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1926-28 Suburban Premium 'Victorian Footballers - Players Names on Front' (25/101 known + 1 spare with different back). Fair/VG. - the biggest selection of these we have offered. (26 items) | *** |  |
| *** | 1901 Wills (Australia) 'Cricketer Series' (No Frame), part set (29/57 - series is numbered to 50, although there are 7 variants), noted Victor Trumper, Joe Darling, W.G.Grace & Ranjitsinhji Rare group, though condition mixed, 2 damaged, mainly Fair to Good | *** |  |
| *** | Macquarie, Lachlan [Governor of New South Wales, 1810-1821] signature and seal on July 1816 Land Grant for 105 Acres in the District of Argyle, Van Diemen's Land. The land granted to Andrew Whitehaed is described as being bounded by Gunning's Farm, the… | *** |  |
| *** | Cook, James & Forster, George A Voyage Round the World Performed in His Britannic Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. ...Illustrated with a Chart of the Southern Hemisphere... [Dublin; W.Whitestone, S… | *** |  |
| *** | Hawkesworth, John An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin… | *** |  |
| *** | Cook, Captain James; King, Captain James A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.....for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the… | *** |  |
| *** | H.M.S. Megaera, Australia & New Zealand Naval Interest Wilson, George, Sub-Lieutenant June 1870 to October 1873 hand-written journal kept by Wilson. It comprises of geographic details and observations as well as extensive diary entries. Wilson was one of… | *** |  |
| *** | The Alarming History of Abraham Crabtree - Van Diemen's Land & Norfolk Island Crabtree arrived in Van Diemen's Land in July 1832, one of the 221 convicts aboard 'Katherine Stewart Forbes', following his trial at York, West Riding Quarter Sessions, where… | *** |  |
| *** | Bellin, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772], Carte reduite des terres Australes pour servir a l'histoire des voyages / par le Sr. Bellin, Ing. de la marine de la Societe Royale de Londres && ca. 1753, 22 x 29.5 cm (plate size). Original copperplate-engraved map… | *** |  |
| *** | Ives, Edward: 'A Voyage from England to India, in the Year Mdccliv, and an Historical Narrative or the Operations of the Squadron and Army in India, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive [.]. Also, a Journey from Persia to England, by… | *** |  |
| *** | Harold Emanuel Freedman (1915-1999), Women of Service (the porter), colour lithographic poster, circa 1947, poster No.245 for Victorian Railways, printed by F.W. Niven. Linen backed, 101 x 64 cm. The rarest of the images in the series. | *** |  |
| *** | Bendigo: an original document hand written in ink on vellum, 'Rules and Regulations of the Isabella Mining Company Registered.' a rare example of early documentation of miners amalgamating into companies. This one from 23 September 1870 in Sandhurst… | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert Ponting (1870-1935): 'Weddell Seal (Diving Off the Ice. Cape Evans, March 15, 1911)', c1911, silver gelatin photograph (44 x 60 cm), the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G.Ponting' at lower right, titled and numbered '35' on the fine Art Society… | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Sniders & Abrahams æAustralian Footballers - Victorian Association PlayersÆ (including Footscray, North Melbourne and Richmond), series D, complete set [20]. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1920 J. J. Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) æAustralian FootballersÆ, complete set [60]. G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | 1962 Coca-Cola 'Geelong League Football Stars', complete set (24) pasted into special album, (cards are in very good shape, but there is some silverfish damage to the front of the album). Plus Geelong 'Players Album' for 1963, published by Coca-Cola… | *** |  |
| *** | 1966 Scanlens 'Footballers Die Cuts', complete set (14). Mainly G/VG | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman, display comprising complete set of 1995 ‘The Bradman collection' cards (20) - with each card signed by Bradman, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 48 x 51 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | 1970 Kelloggs 'Footballers in action', almost complete set (47/48), plus the error card No. 4 bill Goggin (no.4 Doug Wade missing). Extremely rare. G/VG. (total 48) | *** |  |
| *** | 1928 Weekly Times 'Football Team Photos' (17/23 known + 1 unlisted), comprising Albury, Ballarat, Carlton, Castlemaine, Collingwood, Dimboola, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Horsham, Kyneton, Maryborough, Melbourne, Nhill, port Melbourne, Sandhurst, St.… | *** |  |
| *** | 1972-75 Scanlens football cards, noted 1972 (35), 1973 Series A (27), 1973 Series B (21), 1974 (200 + 12 Checklists) & 1975 (108 + 16 Checklists); also 1974 Scanlens 'Kung Fu' (35). Some duplication. Fair/VG. (Total 454) | *** |  |
| *** | 2007 Scanlens '1966 Flag series', complete Richmond set in leather bound album in presentation box, comprising 8 x 10 Team Photograph Series (6), Archive Series (84), Grand Final Series (4), Portrait Series (84), Captains Series (12), plus Certificate of… | *** |  |
| *** | Policing in Victoria 1858 - 1911: A large cloth-bound volume providing a manuscript record of 'Report of Charges Taken' at various Watch Houses: Mainly at Yendon but also at Rokewood, Rokewood Junction, Whim Holes and Stockyard Hill, all being in the… | *** |  |
| *** | Policing in Victoria 1860 - 1914: A large leather & cloth-bound volume providing a manuscript record of 'Report of Charges Taken' Burrumbeet & Miner's Rest Watch Houses, both being in the vicinity of Ballarat. Many hundreds of entries giving the… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' edited by Hon. Andrew Garran [Syd, 1886], 3 vol. folio, fine red morocco with embossed gilt spine and boards decorated with kangaroo, emu, tallship and crossed shovel and pick, gilt edging, a fine copy in remarkably good… | *** |  |
| *** | Leichhardt, Dr. F.W. Journal Of An Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845. [T. & W. Boone; London; 1847] First edition, large 8vo, 544pp; engraved plates… | *** |  |
| *** | Art in Australia: 1916 - 1940, sixty-seven different editions including several specials; mixed condition. | *** |  |
| *** | Elizabeth Cheatham - sentenced to death; transported for life: 5 November 1833 mss letter (2pp) written to her parents from the Chester City Gaol where she was being held pending removal to the hulks prior to transportation. 'I am sorry to afflict your… | *** |  |
| *** | 1932 Sweetacres: 'Test match Records': complete set (32), including Bradman, Ponsford, McCabe, Larwood, Jardine & Nawab of Pataudi, condition generally Fair/G, also 1934 Godfrey Phillips 'Grey's Cigarettes' (10, cards #11-20) G/F, Ogden's (UK) 'Australian… | *** |  |
| *** | A Free Pardon For Joseph Taylor: December 1846 Free Pardon signed by Governor Charles Fitzroy and bearing his seal, issued in favour of Taylor, a tailor, who had originally been tried at Cumberland Assizes in 1830 at the age of 16, found guilty and… | *** |  |
| *** | 1970 Scanlens 'Footballers' complete set [66], including Kevin Sheedy, Bob Skilton, Doug Wade and Peter Hudson, mostly G/VG. (66). | *** |  |
| *** | Craigie's Australian states rotary rolling map box in blackwood cabinet, early 20th century, 97 cm high, 124 cm wide, 13 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | 1975 Scanlens: incomplete set [58/132] with many cards heavily duplicated including Kevin Murray (10), Peter Knights (7), Peter McKenna (6) & Kevin Sheedy (9), plus duplicated checklists for Collingwood, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne & St Kilda; to… | *** |  |
| *** | Views of Ceylon Old-time album with embossed date and initials to front cover 'A.M.B. 20. 3. 93' containing fourteen fine albumen prints, each 20 x 26 cm and laid down | *** |  |
| *** | Andrew Kippis, the life of Captain James cook, (Dublin: Chamberlaine, Colles, et al., 1788) 1st Irish edition, issued in the same year as the first London edition; 8vo, contemporary calf, the spine with gilt and contrasting label, blank endpapers, XVI,… | *** |  |
| *** | Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1880), 'Victoria Illustrated', (Sands & Kenny: Melbourne & Sydney), 1857, oblong quarto, engraved vignette title page and, 45 steel engraved plates; original rich blue cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt and the pages with gilt… | *** |  |
| *** | New Zealand : James Cook: 'Carte de la N.le Zelande visitee en 1769 et 1770 par le Lieutenant J. Cook Commandant de l'Endeavour vaißeau de la Majeste', James Cook, Published Paris, 1774; engraved by Robert Benard. 49 x 38 cm. The original French edition… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Baudelaire, Spleen de Paris, edition illustree etornee par le peintre d'Essertine, Theoule sur Mer [France], Phillipe Gonin, 1942. Quarto, original hand-lettered wrappers, collated in sections, pp 81, bookplate to colophon leaf. Housed in faux… | *** |  |
| *** | Victoria Illustrated (second series) published by Sands, Kenny & Co., and Sydney : Sands & Kenny, 1862. Oblong quarto, gilt lettered green cloth with elaborate gilt ornamentation | *** |  |
| *** | Huge collection of cricket cigarette and trade cards,-2006, mostly complete sets, noted 1905 Wills 'Sporting Terms' (10/25); 1923 'Chums Cricketers' (23); Ogdens 'Cricket 1926' (50); Players 'Cricketers, Caricatures by Rip' (50); Major Drapkin 'Australian… | *** |  |
| *** | 1909 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', series D, complete set (60) | *** |  |
| *** | 1920 J.J. Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Australian Footballers', complete set (60) | *** |  |
| *** | 1964-68 football cards, noted 1964 Mobil (22); 1965 Mobil (1); 1966 Scanlens (46 + 7 die cuts); 1967 Scanlens (40); 1968 Scanlens series a (12) and series B (11). Poor/G | *** |  |
| *** | Cook, James (Captain), a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of Captains cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.… | *** |  |
| *** | 1964-70 Scanlens football cards, all Carlton players, comprising 1964 (3/33); 1965 (3/36); 1966 (5/72 including 1 die cut); 1967 (6/72); 1968 Series A (3/44); 1968 Series B (7/40); 1969 (4/48); 1969 die cut (1/18) (missing outside); 1970 (7/66). (Total 39) | *** |  |
| *** | 1966 Scanlens 'Footballers', complete set (72), including the 14 die-cut cards. Fair/G. Scarce set. | *** |  |
| *** | 1954 Coles 'Victorian Footballers' (series 2) almost complete set (54/56). G/VG. (missing 2 Coleman cards). Superb condition. | *** |  |
| *** | 1995 Futera 'The Heritage Collection - A Collection of Great Australian Cricketers', complete set (60), with 58 of the cards signed, including Don Bradman, Ray Lindwall, Neil Harvey & Graham McKenzie. VG in special box of issue. Numbered '11/500' | *** |  |
| *** | Northern Territory Land Company Ltd 1882-1980s archive of documents including 1882 bank & legal correspondence with C.J. Sanders (company secretary) relating to the March 1882 incorparation of the company, plus Bank of Australasia opening account books,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1970 Scanlen's 'Footballers' incomplete set + many duplicates, (260). Mixed condition. | *** |  |
| *** | A New South Wales Conditional Pardon April 1833 Conditional Pardon granted to Thomas Yarwood and signed by Richard Bourke, Governor of New South Wales [1831-37]. The document is vellum and retains a small portion of the official seal of the Colony.… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Alfred Woolley (1834-1922), William Lanne (King Billy), and Patty Clark (Cooneana), circa 1880 albumen paper photographs, 16.5 x 15 cm and 14.5 x 13.4 cm respectively; individually laid down on cardboard mounts, the Lanne portrait with some pen… | *** |  |
| *** | John Watt Beattie (1859-1930). A large leather-bound album containing a collection of thirty-seven albumen paper photographs (each approx. 14 x 20 cm or 19 x 23.5 cm), one per page and all annotated in pencil below the image. In several cases, Beattie's… | *** |  |
| *** | Alphonse Chargois (1860-1936), Aboriginal men and boys, 1890s, albumen paper photograph laid down on the photographer's cabinet card, inscribed on margin in text 'A. Chargois. Croydon [and Normanton]', image 10 x 14.5 cm. Although not titled nor annotated… | *** |  |
| *** | Comics - Superboy (Australian issue): bundle of earlier issues comprising #7, 9-10, 12-23, 25-29, 33-44, 47-48, 50-51, foxing on earlier issues, nonetheless presentable condition overall, K.G. Murray Publishing Co (Sydney). (35) | *** |  |
| *** | 1974 Scanlens 'Footballers' complete set [132] in very fine condition. | *** |  |
| *** | Caroline Chisholm (1808 - 1877), full original pen signature on 10th October 1866 4-page Als, headed 15 Brookland Road, Stoney Croft, Liverpool, and address to a Mr. Childers. She is seeking his support in having some of her 'Progressive' writings… | *** |  |
| *** | Raymond, James (compiler), the New South Wales calendar and general post office Directory,1832, [Sydney, Stephens & Stokes, 1832.] Octavo, original green cloth, remnants of original paper label to spine, front pastedown with early binder's ticket of… | *** |  |
| *** | James Prinsep (1799 - 1840), Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings, [Calcutta : Baptist Mission Press, 1830], folio; incomplete but with 21 lithographed and 7 engraved plates present. | *** |  |
| *** | 1922 J.J. Schuh (Magpie Cigarettes) 'Portraits of our Leading Footballers', complete set numbered 1-96, including No.16 (F.Linney), total [96/104]. (Note: There are 6 un-numbered cards, and two types of No.16) | *** |  |
| *** | Fishing: Life-time collection in album, with 86 postcards, mainly Australian salmon trout fishing, c1900-30s, many are extremely rare, noted 'Haunts of the Trout - Southern Monaro' series by Kerry & Co, (14); others from NSW, Tasmania, Victoria,… | *** |  |
| *** | 1907 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Footballers - Victorian League Players', series C (half-length), complete set (56). Mainly G/VG. | *** |  |
| *** | Don Bradman, display comprising complete set of 1995 'The Bradman Collection' cards (20 + Entry form card) - with each card signed by Bradman, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 56 x 69 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | 1904-08 Sniders & Abrahams 'Australian Football - Incidents in Play', complete set (16). Mainly (includes the card overwritten as 'Geelong and Melbourne'; does not include error card 'Carlton and Geelong'). | *** |  |
| *** | 1966 Scanlens 'Footballers', part set (58/72) (missing the non Die Cut cards). Mainly G/VG | *** |  |